I voted for Trump in 2016 . . . because I was lied to and I fell for it

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    it wasn’t the pedophilia, the raping, the fraud, the tens of thousands of lies, the pornstar hush money, “grab’em by the pussy,” “suckers and losers,” the support for genocide and pointless bullshit iran war–no, it was the ai jesus pic that pushed them over the edge…

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      Which isn’t even really new information. He’s compared himself to Jesus multiple times and blasphemed publicly a few times that I’m aware of.

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        i am also occasionally guilty of operating on the assumption that anything about maga voters makes any sense whatsoever

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          Well, something about them does make sense. They are all a bunch of scared babies who want a mean daddy to fix all their problems (which are apparently 100% just brown people).

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            The saddest part to me is that they have been conditioned and misled to this position carefully, methodically, and maliciously over a few decades. If you aren’t the type to push back and question what those around you do and say then it becomes your warped reality. It’s the same misleading ensnarement used by cult leaders.

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      This isn’t the first one made of him. So it took a few to push people over.

      A reminder that it isn’t Trump, but the ones who support him that are the problem, and there are so many of them. And even they are also just a symptom of a deeper illness. A self-perpetuating one.

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          There are lots of problems, but some are more dependent on the others, so pick your battles. There are also predicaments. Whether or not the biggest problems are really that is debatable. But have to start somewhere.

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            Right, you just literally said Trump wasn’t a problem, which is quite obviously false. I know what you meant, but it sounded bad.

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      I think that they were willing to go along with just about anything, so long as it seemed like he was a path to power. But, from their perspective, he’s committed the ultimate faux pa, he made gas prices go up. So his political agenda is dead in the water with no chance of recovery. This stuff is just the excuse to back away without loosing face.